{"title": "Queer Recipes Archive", "start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T15:45:00Z", "place": "Set Social", "address": "Nigel Road 55, SE15 4NP London", "price": "Free, booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["food-drink/cooking", "society/queer"], "description": "Queer Recipes Archive is a workshop at Set Social that invites participants to rethink recipes and the stories they tell, asking who decides what makes a recipe 'traditional'. It is presented by Edible Theatre, led by Jo Pereira da Costa and co-hosted by @pomegranate___seeds. The session begins with a reimagined recipe prepared and performed live, followed by a small tasting, exploring how migration, labour, gender and power shape what we cook. Participants then rewrite the recipe through their own memories and desires into a double-layered zine to take home, which can also join the growing archive; it is free with booking required, open to adults 18 and over, and no experience is needed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/queer-recipes-archive-38498/", "official_url": "https://setspace.uk/event/queer-recipes-archive/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c734fc1ed48d521c26d57076da89568e510fdade5bb076756fa22da91a4552f0-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T15:45:00Z", "place": "Set Social", "address": "Nigel Road 55, SE15 4NP London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Queer Recipes Archive (Community Workshop)", "start": "2026-11-05T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T15:00:00Z", "place": "Chats Palace", "address": "Brooksby's Walk 42-44, E9 6DF London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/zines", "food-drink/food-culture", "society/queer"], "description": "Queer Recipes Archive is an interactive workshop-performance that explores who defines the \"traditional\" version of a dish and whose experiences its recipe leaves out, tracing how ingredients and techniques have changed through migration, labour, gender and power. Participants create a double-layered zine rewriting the recipe through their own memories and desires, adding to a growing archive of stories told through food, and take their zines home; all materials are provided and no cooking or writing experience is needed. It is led by artist-facilitators Jo Pereira da Costa, a sensory artist and performance maker who founded Aftertaste, a studio producing edible theatre through dinner-performances, and Rachel, an Anthropology of Food student at SOAS researching mustard and olive oil production for the Food Museum. The workshop is open to adults aged 18 and over, especially queer and trans folks and anyone interested in the social and cultural dimensions of food; it is free to attend with registration via DICE essential.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/queer-recipes-archive-community-workshop-35261/", "official_url": "https://chatspalace.com/events/queer-recipes-archive-free-workshop/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/efe93358e5b0e6ebb099789778b58d46cb68dbd425de6d8fbc538453c1615b5a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Queer Recipes Archive, Volume 2: How to Crack an Egg", "start": "2026-11-05T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T13:00:00Z", "place": "Chats Palace", "address": "Brooksby's Walk 42-44, E9 6DF London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["food-drink/cooking", "society/gender", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "Queer Recipes Archive, Volume 2: How to Crack an Egg is a performance that takes the Portuguese bifana, a traditional pork sandwich, as its starting point. Through live cooking and storytelling, it explores masculinity, reproduction and transmasculine experience, reimagining the dish by transforming its ingredients and form. It moves between the politics of gender, bodily consumption and the division between cooking as an obligation to nourish and cooking as an act of creative genius. Participants then rewrite the inherited recipe themselves, questioning what traditions preserve, what they exclude and what else they might become.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/queer-recipes-archive-volume-2-how-to-crack-an-egg-78970/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/90e8270339deaa064a51b7535bba6aa6a976ce85ea309a1d319c92a48db1d743-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Queer Diary: Zine-Making Evening", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T20:00:00Z", "place": "London LGBTQ+ Community Centre", "address": "Hopton Street 60-62, SE1 9JH London", "price": "Pay What You Can", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/zines"], "description": "Queer Diary: Zine-Making Evening is a crafting workshop where LGBTQIA+ adults can make their own personal Queer Teenage History Zine, collaging, doodling and writing to a throwback soundtrack. All materials are provided, including paper, scissors, felt-tips and old teen mags to cut up, and attendees may bring a favourite object, picture or memory as inspiration. It is brought to you by the team behind Queer Diary, the night where LGBTQIA+ adults read their teenage diaries on stage. Booking is essential and spaces are limited.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/queer-diary-zine-making-evening-41650/", "official_url": "https://londonlgbtqcentre.org/event/queer-diary-zine-making-evening/2026-11-05/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Voices for Dissent, Voices for Desire: Creative Writing Workshop", "start": "2026-11-14T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Autograph, London", "address": "", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "literature/creative-writing", "society/queer"], "description": "A creative writing workshop exploring the relationship between language, desire and representation. It is led by the Tamil London-based writer and poet Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, a recipient of the Poetry Archive Prize and the Disabled Poets Prize. Participants respond with guided prompts and reflective exercises to Autograph's exhibition Charan Singh: Your Tongue in My Mouth, which examines how South Asian queer narratives have been obscured and reshaped by colonial legacies. The ticket includes materials, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/voices-for-dissent-voices-for-desire-creative-writing-worksh-34790/", "official_url": "https://autograph.org.uk/events/voices-for-dissent-voices-for-desire-creative-writing-workshop", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d4fd07a9d3d358afe7cbdd14b9d5eed226cc8d0871b43f19fb5e05efd1819aa9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Reclaiming the Archives", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T20:30:00Z", "place": "St. Margaret's House", "address": "Old Ford Road 15-23, E2 9PJ London", "price": "£12–£17", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "17.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/zines"], "description": "\"Reclaiming the Archives\" is a hands-on creative workshop at which participants turn their personal photographs into a zine using stitch, writing and collage. It is facilitated by Caroline Lacoma, a London-based self-taught visual artist born in Guadeloupe whose work explores transformation, rebirth and the self. The workshop invites participants to consider the photographs they have inherited, collected or taken and the stories they tell about family, identity, memory and belonging. No previous artistic or zine-making experience is required, all materials are provided, and participants may bring printed photographs to work on.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/reclaiming-the-archives-38782/", "official_url": "https://www.stmargaretshouse.org.uk/events/reclaiming-the-archives", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ea9c53d56c3c2aafda236f2ac05744c2a292f8c209d434c19caef2c2a88ed03f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Homelands research seminar series: Scraps into Delicacies", "start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "University of Westminster", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/migration/diaspora", "food-drink/food-culture"], "description": "A research seminar titled \"Scraps into Delicacies: Sustainable and Cultural Food Practices of Diasporic Communities in London\", part of the Homelands research seminar series. It is run by Emily Falconer of the University of Westminster's School of Social Sciences together with Cavendish Living Lab community connectors Mariam Selim and Yumeng Yang, in partnership with the university's Centre for Social Justice Research. Drawing on focus groups with Korean, Caribbean, Italian, Chinese, Alevi and Jewish communities in London, it explores food practices that promote sustainability through low-waste cooking, preservation and adaptation, and argues that food is also a site of identity, belonging and exclusion in a global city. Attendees from outside the university are asked to reserve a spot by emailing the organisers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/homelands-research-seminar-series-scraps-into-delicacies-39998/", "official_url": "https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/homelands-research-seminar-series-scraps-into-delicacies", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b46362028ab658f3f697265648b25fc60960aa4d871f82fa1b3fa9534e33e81b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "West London Queer Project Yoga (ArtsEd)", "start": "2026-11-08T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T10:00:00Z", "place": "ArtsEd", "address": "Cone Ripman House, 14 Bath Road, Chiswick, W4 1LY London", "price": "GBP 2.50", "price_from": "2.50", "price_to": "2.50", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["wellness/yoga"], "description": "A yoga session for LGBTQ+ people at ArtsEd in Chiswick. It is run by the West London Queer Project and aims to calm the mind and leave participants feeling alive and revived. The sessions are open to all levels including beginners and cover building core strength, body balance, increased flexibility and a better connection to the breath. Entry is free for 18-25 year olds.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/west-london-queer-project-yoga-artsed-64411/", "official_url": "https://www.wlqp.org/events", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3132bde6161d1c8218e9e21b3930f2354f57fe8c361f3fbdc908ec2e02caae0f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Touch Grass Day-Tripper — winter bouquet making", "start": "2026-11-07T13:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T15:30:00Z", "place": "Firepit Art Gallery", "address": "Cutter Lane 10, SE10 0XX London", "price": "GBP 6.13", "price_from": "6.13", "price_to": "6.13", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/crafts/floral-art"], "description": "A winter bouquet making workshop at Firepit Art Gallery, where participants arrange seasonal flowers into a bouquet for a loved one or for themselves, with materials and light refreshments provided. It is run by Touch Grass CIC, an outdoor community for queer women, trans and non-binary people of colour, and facilitated by Amber, who teaches floral pieces connecting communities to nature. The session is exclusive to queer women, trans and non-binary people of colour, and is part of the Earth to Us Workshops celebrating the launch of Touch Grass's first exhibition, Earth to Us, an archive of queer folk of colour in nature. It is funded by the Greenwich Healthier Communities Fund and Groundwork London, with financial aid available for those struggling to attend.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/touch-grass-day-tripper-winter-bouquet-making-78665/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fec6341a7a142e1fd970a8feb3dc7fca525f58a30b61f80fccbf5a9db01b7119-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Green Futures: SEED", "start": "2026-11-05T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T16:00:00Z", "place": "South London Botanical Institute", "address": "Norwood Road 323, SE24 9AQ London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["food-drink/cooking", "nature/plants", "society"], "description": "Green Futures: SEED is a one-day course celebrating access to urban nature and edible plants, held at the South London Botanical Institute. It is part of a co-learning space for young people aged 18-25 from Lambeth, run by the institute as a free Autumn term course with practical training in plants, urban greening and community organising. Participants will learn about the Right to Grow campaign with Incredible Edible Lambeth, explore edible plants in the garden and herbarium collections, cook and share an autumnal plant-based meal, and take part in a collaborative art project.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/green-futures-seed-38701/", "official_url": "https://www.slbi.org.uk/event/green-futures-seed/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4a9be7388f6a23f00188f8ba23897c717680fc2e46da5c930ea401e96933103d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "SCRAPBOOKING + ZINE MAKING: MANOS QUEER x TAC", "start": "2026-11-03T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T20:00:00Z", "place": "Dalston Superstore", "address": "Kingsland High Street 117, E8 2PB London", "price": "Free, with optional pay-what-you-can tickets", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/zines", "society/queer"], "description": "SCRAPBOOKING + ZINE MAKING: MANOS QUEER x TAC is a free scrapbooking and zine-making workshop with doodling, scrapping and sticking. It is run by Manos Queer in collaboration with the Trans Artists Collective and hosted at Dalston Superstore, which donates the month's posters to be ripped up. The space is open to all levels and is focused on trans+ and queer folks coming together to make things. Attendance is free with a booked ticket, and optional pay-what-you-can tickets help support the spaces.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/scrapbooking-zine-making-manos-queer-x-tac-35525/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/39241378fd88dad7247d1163b3f89b0a409e7c33afb375c937e16e106e3c2a95-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Adult Cook & Eat Classes - Book Online", "start": "2026-11-06T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T13:00:00Z", "place": "St Luke's Community Centre", "address": "Central Street 90, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["food-drink/cooking"], "description": "Adult Cook & Eat Classes - Book Online is a cooking class at St Luke's Cookery School, a fully-equipped cooking space with eight cooking stations, including one with full wheelchair access. It is run by St Luke's Community Centre, whose income from private hire funds free community cookery classes for members of all ages. In the classes, adults learn to cook fresh food from scratch, making household budgets stretch further, using as much donated food that might otherwise go to waste or food grown in the Centre's Edible Yard. After cooking, the group can enjoy a chat over their food in the dining room or the garden's outdoor seating area.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/adult-cook-eat-classes-book-online-42067/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c3055e698b62e274362c7fc382416d9a7065db1f0786095bc21f255e24c1432c-1200.webp"}]}